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Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review

Gales M, Yonally Phillips EL, Zilversmit Pao L, Dubray C, Rodriguez Ribas Elizalde C,  et al.
2025-01-19 • BMJ Global Health
2025-01-19 • BMJ Global Health

INTRODUCTION

Understanding sex and gender differences during outbreaks is critical to delivering an effective response. Although recommendations and minimum req...

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The frequency and incidence of QT prolongation with extended use of bedaquiline or delamanid in a large, multi-country MDR/RR-TB cohort

Khan U, Rich M, Franke M, Lachenal N, Ahmed S,  et al.
2024-12-10 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2024-12-10 • Clinical Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND

The 2022 WHO guidelines on multi-drug/rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) recommend six months of bedaquiline (Bdq) in the all-oral 9-month shorter regimen ...

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Safety and effectiveness outcomes from a 14-country cohort of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis treated concomitantly with bedaquiline, delamanid and other second-line drugs

Huerga H, Khan UT, Bastard M, Mitnick CD, Lachenal N,  et al.
2022-10-15 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2022-10-15 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Concomitant use of bedaquiline (Bdq) and delamanid (Dlm) for multi-drug/rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) has raised concerns about a potentially poor risk-ben...
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The impact of reactive mass vaccination campaigns on measles outbreaks in the Katanga region, Democratic Republic of Congo

Funk S, Takahashi S, Hellewell J, Gadroen K, Carrion Martin AI,  et al.
2019-08-17 • medRxiv
2019-08-17 • medRxiv
The Katanga region in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been struck by repeated epidemics of measles, with large outbreaks occurring in 2010–13 and 2015. In many of the affected...
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Accounting for false positive HIV tests: Is visceral leishmaniasis responsible?

Shanks L, Ritmeijer KKD, Piriou E, Siddiqui MR, Kliescikova J,  et al.
2015-07-10 • PLOS One
2015-07-10 • PLOS One
Co-infection with HIV and visceral leishmaniasis is an important consideration in treatment of either disease in endemic areas. Diagnosis of HIV in resource-limited settings relies on ra...
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Retrospective mortality and baseline health survey in Palorinya settlement camp, Uganda

Siddiqui MR, Cramond V, Goldberg J, Guzek J
2018-07-01
2018-07-01
2. OBJECTIVES

2.1. PRIMARY OBJECTIVES
To estimate the scale of the emergency through measurement of crude mortality rate for the total population and for children under f...
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Outcomes of visceral leishmaniasis in pregnancy: A retrospective cohort study from South Sudan

Pekelharing JE, Gatluak F, Harrison TS, Maldonado F, Siddiqui MR,  et al.
2020-01-24 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2020-01-24 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
INTRODUCTION
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is endemic in South Sudan, where outbreaks occur frequently. Because of changes in the immune system during pregnancy, pregnant women are con...
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Adherence to Artemisinin Combination Therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Siddiqui MR, Willis A, Bil K, Singh JA, Mukomena Sompwe E,  et al.
2015-02-24 • F1000Research
2015-02-24 • F1000Research
Between 2011 and 2013 the number of recorded malaria cases had more than doubled, and between 2009 and 2013 had increased almost 4-fold in MSF-OCA (Médecins sans Frontières - Operational...
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What drives mortality among HIV patients in a conflict setting? A prospective cohort study in the Central African Republic

Crellen T, Ssonko C, Piening T, Simaleko MM, Geiger K,  et al.
2019-11-14 • Conflict and Health
2019-11-14 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND
Provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) during conflict settings is rarely attempted and little is known about the expected patterns of mortality. The Central African Re...
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Dilution Testing Using Rapid Diagnostic Tests in a HIV Diagnostic Algorithm: a Novel Alternative for Confirmation Testing in Resource Limited Settings

Shanks L, Siddiqui MR, Abebe A, Piriou E, Pearce N,  et al.
2015-05-14 • Virology Journal
2015-05-14 • Virology Journal
Current WHO testing guidelines for resource limited settings diagnose HIV on the basis of screening tests without a confirmation test due to cost constraints. This leads to a potential r...
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Retrospective mortality survey in the MSF catchment area in Mayendit county, Unity State, South Sudan

Pijnacker R, Siddiqui MR, Rolfes E, Liddle KF, Dada M,  et al.
2018-07-01
2018-07-01
OBJECTIVES

2.1. PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

 To estimate retrospectively the crude mortality rate for the total population and for children under five years of age in the M...
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Research Protocol

Retrospective mortality and baseline health survey in Ofua village, Rhino settlement camp, Uganda

Siddiqui MR, Cramond V, Barre I, Johnson DC
2018-07-01
2018-07-01
OBJECTIVES

2.1. PRIMARY OBJECTIVES
To estimate the scale of the emergency through measurement of crude mortality rate for the total population and for children under five...